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Rick Sanchez Out At CNN

He missed what was to be his last primetime show! Tonight at 8: it's Somebody's List, the one-time TV show!
 
Maybe they'll have William Shatner agree to host it last-minute (remember that he is a skilled interviewer himself).

They can call it "The $#*! List."
 
Talk about suffering from Foot-in-Mouth disease. Having a personal opinion is one thing. Going on a national radio show and expressing that personal opinion about your employer is asking to get fired.
 
Rick Sanchez's politics are not that different than Jon Stewart's. Stewart likes to skewer Fox News because of their right wing politics. He likes to skewer Sanchez because Sanchez is a buffoon. I'd speculate that the continual Daily Show razing has been sticking in Rick's craw for a long time, and that's why he said what he said about Stewart's politics.

CNN promoted Sanchez and his lightweight "List" gimmick to a high visibility afternoon slot because they thought he'd boost their low ratings. I don't know if he did that or not, but he must have been an embarrassment to a network trying to burnish their credibility as the place to go for serious news.
 
I'm just cynical enough to believe that......after a sufficient period of "introspection and reflection", along with all the obligatory apologies......that Sanchez will wind up at MSNBC or FOX News.

Rick Sanchez may be many things....but boring is not one of them. ;)
 
We South Floridians know Rick Sanchez is a buffoon. He's also been 'neutered' since going national; he's not nearly as bad as he was as a local anchor but you still see that gleam in his eye when he's running through his copy.

When he was on WSVN7/Miami from the early 80s until a few years ago, SVN was NBC's Miami affiliate until 1/1/1989, when 7 went indie and eventually became the de-facto Miami Fox affiliate. While as a reporter and later anchor, Sanchez treated every story like it affected and impacted him personally and he let everyone know it. Made for good ratings when the great Joel Cheatwood brought the 'if it bleeds it leads' tabloid look to the news department.

Want to see him as a local yokel from back in the day? Go to Youtube and search his name and WSVN and see some old video airchecks.

MSNBC tried and failed with him. FOX News? He could always joins his former WSVN buddies Rick Levanthal and Shepard Smith. YES. These guys made their mark in Miami too.
 
His color commentary during the Tsunami Watch for Hawaii was comedy, it couldn't have been written better. I hope "The Daily Show" is live next week, if so Monday's episode will be epic. Plus, Sanchez can now take up Colbert on his offer.
 
Dighton Rockhead said:
I'm just cynical enough to believe that......after a sufficient period of "introspection and reflection", along with all the obligatory apologies......that Sanchez will wind up at MSNBC or FOX News.

Rick Sanchez may be many things....but boring is not one of them. ;)
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My cat puking his Friskies all over my bed in the middle of the night isn't boring either - but it's really, really annoying. So is Sanchez.
 
First Dobbs for allegedly being anti-Hispanic and Sanchez for a pro-Hispanic rant. Actually, Rick Sanchez has the voice and delivery that would have aced a job on WQAM or WFUN around 1962. Of course he would have been Rick Starr or Rick Sandy or something like that. He was just born too late.
 
I thought Sanchez was somewhat compelling on "Rick's List". He certainly was as interesting as O'Reilly and Obermann. My gut tells me his comments on the satellite radio show were intentional. Rick seems to be grasping for attention, and that was a way to get it, no doubt. I expect him to be back on the air...somewhere...within 6 months. As to why he got fired...some say it was about Stewart. I don't buy it. CNN took offense about his comments about themselves. It may be spun in other ways, but really...you diss your employer, and that usually is the end.
 
I just expect my news anchors to be smarter than a fifth grader. Sanchez may have generated a lot of buzz when he said some idiotic things, but most of the buzz was spread by people like me who weren't watching and weren't incited to watch by his chicanery.
 
And in the end, he ultimately proved Jon Stewart right.
 
MsMusicRadio said:
First Dobbs for allegedly being anti-Hispanic and Sanchez for a pro-Hispanic rant. Actually, Rick Sanchez has the voice and delivery that would have aced a job on WQAM or WFUN around 1962. Of course he would have been Rick Starr or Rick Sandy or something like that. He was just born too late.
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I don't know about WQAM or WFUN, but Sanchez's delivery on-air is a bit like the over-blown, pompous, and self-important newscasters you'd find in Los Angeles in the 1960s. George Putnam comes to mind. Putnam was the inspiration for Ted Baxter on the MTM show. But the comparison is mostly about voice and speech.

Putnam had many detractors (he was very right-wing, and would have been on Fox News today), but nobody ever accused Putnam of being light-weight, or a buffoon.
 
Dighton Rockhead said:
I'm just cynical enough to believe that......after a sufficient period of "introspection and reflection", along with all the obligatory apologies......that Sanchez will wind up at MSNBC or FOX News.
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...Sanchez was on MSNBC before jumping to CNN. IIRC, PeacockNews dumped him at the same time they did Tucker Carlson...
 
Ultimajock said:
Dighton Rockhead said:
I'm just cynical enough to believe that......after a sufficient period of "introspection and reflection", along with all the obligatory apologies......that Sanchez will wind up at MSNBC or FOX News.
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...Sanchez was on MSNBC before jumping to CNN. IIRC, PeacockNews dumped him at the same time they did Tucker Carlson...
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Yeah, to their local own-and-operated station in Miami in 2003 with his own local talk show that last one season. Google the "Rick Sanchez Show" and you'll see what I mean. He left after his show didn't make it national like he wanted so he jumped ship to CNN in 2004.
 
Lkeller said:
MsMusicRadio said:
First Dobbs for allegedly being anti-Hispanic and Sanchez for a pro-Hispanic rant. Actually, Rick Sanchez has the voice and delivery that would have aced a job on WQAM or WFUN around 1962. Of course he would have been Rick Starr or Rick Sandy or something like that. He was just born too late.
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I don't know about WQAM or WFUN, but Sanchez's delivery on-air is a bit like the over-blown, pompous, and self-important newscasters you'd find in Los Angeles in the 1960s. George Putnam comes to mind. Putnam was the inspiration for Ted Baxter on the MTM show. But the comparison is mostly about voice and speech.

Putnam had many detractors (he was very right-wing, and would have been on Fox News today), but nobody ever accused Putnam of being light-weight, or a buffoon.
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Yeah...George Putnam was very Ted Baxter-ish in his delivery. All it takes is one clip to see...
 
Raymie said:
Lkeller said:
MsMusicRadio said:
First Dobbs for allegedly being anti-Hispanic and Sanchez for a pro-Hispanic rant. Actually, Rick Sanchez has the voice and delivery that would have aced a job on WQAM or WFUN around 1962. Of course he would have been Rick Starr or Rick Sandy or something like that. He was just born too late.
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I don't know about WQAM or WFUN, but Sanchez's delivery on-air is a bit like the over-blown, pompous, and self-important newscasters you'd find in Los Angeles in the 1960s. George Putnam comes to mind. Putnam was the inspiration for Ted Baxter on the MTM show. But the comparison is mostly about voice and speech.

Putnam had many detractors (he was very right-wing, and would have been on Fox News today), but nobody ever accused Putnam of being light-weight, or a buffoon.
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Yeah...George Putnam was very Ted Baxter-ish in his delivery. All it takes is one clip to see...
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There's a great 50s era clip of Putnam interviewing Ronald and Nancy "Reegan" before the future President decided it should be pronounced "Ray-gun." I can't find it now, unfortunately.

Rico Gregg stated recently he was a Dan Smoot fan. I was a childhood fan of Putnam, and I still remember that he was the king of catch-phrases. His close:

"And that's the up-to-the-minute news, up to the minute, that's all the news. The American flag flies proudly over (fill in name of LA town here), symbolizing a better, a stronger America. Back tomorrow at 5:00 and again at 10:00. See you then!"
 
Lkeller said:
I was a childhood fan of Putnam, and I still remember that he was the king of catch-phrases. His close:

"And that's the up-to-the-minute news, up to the minute, that's all the news. The American flag flies proudly over (fill in name of LA town here), symbolizing a better, a stronger America. Back tomorrow at 5:00 and again at 10:00. See you then!"
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That's a bit over-the-top....even for a TV anchorman. ;)

Here in Southern New England, we got to hear the shorter, simpler, and more elegant close of local TV icon Truman Taylor: "Have a good night tonight, and a better day tomorrow."

http://hubpages.com/hub/Truman-Taylor
 
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